today's wwftd is... perdurance

[fr. perdure < L. perdurare : to endure, persist]
(also, perduration)
the state or quality of being everlasting:
permanence, persistence

"These and other recent incidents of religiously
inspired violence.. give powerful testimony, not
only to the perdurance and revival of centuries-old
intra-religious conflicts.."
- Marty & Appleby, The Glory and the Power (1992)

"Only [her] long habit of taking the temperature of
her own racism, of her biases and stereotypes about
young black males (or about the ironhard perdurance
of their grandmothers) enabled [her] to set aside
(for the time being) her gut reaction--the boy was
trouble.."
- Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue (2012)